Electronic cigarette

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10701973-B2
Application number	US-201615579243-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 7, 2016
Priority date	Jul 7, 2015
Publication date	Jul 7, 2020
Grant date	Jul 7, 2020

Abstract

Disclosed is an electronic cigarette including: a main body portion including a main body cover; an intake portion that generates an aerosol by power supply, sucks the aerosol, and is detachably coupled to the main body portion, and a sliding portion coupled to the main body portion and performing a reciprocating sliding motion and including a slide cover. The electronic cigarette includes a sliding close state in which the main body portion and the sliding portion are pulled to each other and a sliding open state in which the main body portion and the sliding portion are pushed to each other.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An electronic cigarette comprising:
a main body portion including a main body cover;
an intake portion that generates an aerosol by power supply, sucks the aerosol, and is detachably coupled to the main body portion; and
a sliding portion coupled to the main body portion and reciprocatingly sliding and including a slide cover,
wherein the electronic cigarette includes a sliding close state in which the main body portion and the sliding portion are pulled toward each other and a sliding open state in which the main body portion and the sliding portion are pushed away from each other, and
wherein the electronic cigarette includes a switching-on state in which the main body portion and the sliding portion are pressed in the sliding open state and a switching off state in which the main body portion and the sliding portion are not pressed in the sliding open state.

2. The electronic cigarette of claim 1 , wherein:
in the electronic cigarette, the aerosol is generated in the switching-on state and the aerosol is not generated in the switching off state.

3. The electronic cigarette of claim 2 , wherein:
the electronic cigarette includes a locking state in which the switching off state is maintained.

4. The electronic cigarette of claim 3 , wherein:
in the electronic cigarette, in the sliding close state, an upper portion of the intake portion is covered by the main body cover.

5. The electronic cigarette of claim 1 , further comprising:
a projection portion located below the main body cover; and
a switch located below the projection portion and turning on/off the power supply to the intake portion.

6. The electronic cigarette of claim 5 , wherein:
in the sliding open state, the projection portion and the switch are in positions where the projection portion and the switch overlap with each other.

7. The electronic cigarette of claim 6 , wherein:
in the sliding close state, the projection portion and the switch are in positions where the projection portion and the switch do not overlap with each other.

Assignees

• Kt & G Corp

Inventors

• Lee Doo Won

Classifications

• A61M15/06

  Inhaling appliances shaped like cigars, cigarettes or pipes · CPC title

• A24F47/00

  Smokers' requisites not otherwise provided for · CPC title

• A24D1/14 Primary

  Tobacco cartridges for pipes · CPC title

• A61M2205/8206

  battery-operated · CPC title

• A61M2016/0024

  with an on-off output signal, e.g. from a switch · CPC title